Commemoration of the German Society of Gastroenterology
In memory of

Dr. med.
David Adlersberg
1897 - 1960

© The Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD, Archives, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/ <br> Mount Sinai Health System, New York, N.Y.
© The Arthur H. Aufses, Jr., MD, Archives, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/
Mount Sinai Health System, New York, N.Y.

Member since 1925

Immigration to the USA in 1936

Worked at the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York for many years

New England Journal of Medicine 1938
New England Journal of Medicine 1938
Symposium monograph on malabsorption by Adlersberg
Symposium monograph on malabsorption by Adlersberg

Dr. med. David Adlersberg

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  • New York, USA, 1‌0‌.‌0‌1‌.‌1‌9‌6‌0‌
  • Member since 1925
  • Escaped to the USA in 1936
  • Vienna
  • Specialist in internal medicine and metabolism researcher

Education and Places of Work

After studying medicine and obtaining his doctorate in 1921, David Adlersberg worked at the I. Medical Clinic of the University Hospital Vienna for 15 years. He first worked under Karl F. Wenckebach, then under the provisional management of Otto Porges from 1929 to 1933, and under Hans Eppinger from 1933.

New England Journal of Medicine 1938
New England Journal of Medicine 1938

He travelled to the USA in September 1934, where he made many scientific contacts.

His research focused on questions of metabolic pathology – especially diabetes mellitus and hypercholesterinaemia. He also dealt with liver function tests and bile secretion. David Adlersberg was extremely active in publishing and continued to publish even after his emigration to the USA.

 

Emigration to the USA in 1936

David Adlersberg and his wife Gisela Adlersberg left Europe on 22 April 1936, setting off from Le Havre, France, aboard the S.S. Champlain for New York.

Adlersberg worked as attending physician/clinical assistant to George Baehr at the medical division at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and as research assistant at the department of chemistry in close cooperation with Harry Sobotka, the head of the department of laboratory chemistry. Adlersberg later worked at the department of clinical nutrition and metabolic diseases at Mount Sinai Hospital and taught as assistant clinical professor of medicine at Columbia University in New York. He had been publishing widely on cholesterol metabolism, diabetes mellitus, malabsorption, sprue, and postgastrectomy syndrome in leading US journals since 1937.

Symposium monograph on malabsorption by Adlersberg
Symposium monograph on malabsorption by Adlersberg

David Adlersberg died in New York on 10 January 1960 at the age of 62.

Publications

  1. Mit Otto Porges: Zur Theorie und Praxis der kurativen Diabetesbehandlung. Klin Wochenschr 1926; 5: 1451-1455
  2. Gallensekretion und Gallenentleerung. Klinisch-experimentelle Untersuchungen. Leipzig/Wien: Franz Deuticke Verlag 1929
  3. Mit Otto Porges: Die Behandlung der Zuckerkrankheit mit fettarmer Kost. Berlin/Wien: Urban & Schwarzenberg 1929
  4. Mit Sheppard Siegal: Diet in the prevention of diabetes mellitus. N Engl J Med 1938; 219: 194-197
  5. The malabsorption syndrome. Mt Sinai Monographs, London: Grune & Stratton 1957

Sources and Further Reading
Sources
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Sources/Literature/Weblinks

Biographie of Dr. med. David Adlersberg

Bibliography

  • Persönliche Auskunft Barbara Sauer, Wien, an den Verfasser Dr. med. Harro Jenss

Literature

  • Forsbach R, Hofer H-G. Internisten in Diktatur und junger Demokratie. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Innere Medizin 1933-1970. Berlin: Medizinisch Wissenschaftliche Verlagsgesellschaft 2018: 416
  • Glass GBJ. In memoriam David Adlersberg, 1897–1960.Proc Rudolf Virchow Med Society NY 1961; 19: 22–7
  • Popper H. David Adlersberg, 1897–1960. Gastroenterol 1960; 39: 111-2
  • Sobotka H. In memoriam: David Adlersberg. J Mt Sinai Hosp 1960; 27: 379–81

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